Consultant – In-service Teacher Education Re-advertised

As the Grant Agents (GAs) for this initiative, UNESCO, in collaboration with other national and international partners, will work collectively to ensure that children and youth in Myanmar re-engage in quality, meaningful, inclusive, and gender-responsive learning. It specifically focuses on creating safe and protective environments, with a particular emphasis on supporting the most vulnerable learners. 

To achieve these initiatives, UNESCO Myanmar is looking for an Individual consultant to provide the programmatic support to the implementation of the project activities under in-service teacher education.

Under the overall authority of the Director of UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (hereinafter called UNESCO Bangkok), the direct supervision of the Head of UNESCO Antenna Office in Yangon and day to day supervision of Project Officer, the Individual Consultant will perform the following tasks:

• Support quality assurance of the course contents, blog posts, recordings/videos of the content, and translated materials, documents and contents;
• Provide the support for the online modules development process and online course creation at e-learning platform which includes uploading the materials onto the e-learning platform and creating/ editing the quiz and testing the online courses;
• Prepare and organize the virtual or face-to-face trainings/workshops/webinars for the implementation of project activities including the logistical and administrative support;
• Participate and/or facilitate in the virtual or face-to-face trainings/workshops/webinars and provide the necessary support;
• Follow up and communicate with the participants and beneficiaries of the activities to ensure timely and smooth implementation of project activities;
• Manage the private Facebook groups/Professional learning groups and regularly update with activities and announcements;
• Provide informal translation of English-Myanmar or Myanmar-English for project-related documents including public communication materials, articles, documents and blog posts in the activities organized;
• Provide support in monitoring of project activities, including data collection, analysis of data, and updating of the data;
• Explore strategies to increase the number of active users within Professional learning groups;
• Monitor group engagement and encourage participation, discussions, and knowledge sharing among Professional learning groups members;
• Participate and contribute at the weekly meeting and provide the updated information;
• Keep an up‐to‐date, daily record of the work online and make it available for UNESCO to oversee the progress; and
• Undertake any other activities as requested by the Head of Myanmar Project Office

Required Qualifications:

Education and experience:

• At least Bachelor’s degree or equivalent at an accredited institution in education or a related field;
• A minimum 2 years of relevant work experience; and
• Excellent organizational and communication skills to interact effectively with different team members, and stakeholders.

Languages:

• Excellent knowledge of English and Burmese.

Source: https://careers.unesco.org/job/Yangon-Consultant-In-service-Teacher-Education-(Re-advertised)/796177302/